On May 29th, a Pennsylvania-based healthcare provider experienced a bout of unplanned network downtime, rendering its electronic health record (EHR) system and patient portal inaccessible. Seven of the company’s hospitals—including its call center—were affected by the outage, which delayed medical procedures and prevented physicians from accessing important patient information. Patients, too, were unable to obtain…
“The problem I have seen with many Infrastructure as a Service providers is that their offerings often don’t include anything pertaining to end user connectivity. And when they do, they don’t ensure that the connectivity is secure and reliable or deals with performance issues.” – Philbert Shih, Managing Director, Structure Research Infrastructure as a Service…
Let’s face it: Few things are worse than feeling like you aren’t in control over your own destiny. It’s the reason why entrepreneurs start their own businesses, and why many new technologies are invented. Ultimately, the struggle for freedom keeps us moving, until we reach a position of control. When SD-WAN was first created, the…
Cloud applications are now being used across all areas of the enterprise, from billing to marketing to sales to customer support, and everything in between. In a recent study from IDG, it was revealed that 77 percent of enterprises now store at least one application or a portion of their enterprise computing infrastructure in the…
With Multapplied, you have full control and ownership of your network infrastructure right to the customer edge. And if you’re providing managed services, you’ll be able to control quality of service and connectivity from your data center, through the last mile connectivity into the customer LAN. See what Bret Childers, Chief Operating Officer at SOCS…
How often do you see the phrase “no rules” apply to a technology offering? In today’s world of tightly governed licensing models and end user agreements, it’s pretty rare. So, our customers sometimes look at us funny when we tell them that we can provide SD-WAN on their terms. No rules. Plain and simple. In…
Reselling SD-WAN is no different than selling technologies like Desktop as a Service or Firewall as a Service. Ultimately, there are two options available. The standard approach is to partner with a traditional SD-WAN vendor and offer their branded service—essentially, playing by their rules every step of the way (while forking over a large chunk…
We are pleased to announce the release of Multapplied SD-WAN version 6.4. This release delivers the following capabilities: 1) Support for both IPv4 and IPv6 tunnels. IPv6 support has been added to enable the delivery of a virtually unlimited address space. This reduces reliance on limited and costly IPv4 addressing space and provides easier routing…
Every month we’ll be highlighting a feature and delving into what it can do for you, the Service Provider, or your end-customers. This month I’ll be talking about split tunneling or “Tunnel Bypass” as we call it. This Blog defines Tunnel Bypass, provides an overview of what it can do for you, and illustrates the…
At this point, most MSPs are well aware of the SD-WAN play. It’s no secret that SD-WAN is a multi-billion dollar opportunity, and something that every MSP should be leveraging to deploy services, drive profits, acquire new customers and increase customer retention. Unfortunately, most MSPs are still missing the point with SD-WAN—big time. SD-WAN vendors…